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The Park in Bloom

photo credit: Richard E. Santaga

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Filming at the Park

Scott Elliot, is a documentary filmmaker making a film entitled The Trees which helps tell the story of the WTC memorial grove. In his research, he came across the work of US Forest Service research social scientists, Erika S. Svendsen, Ph. D. and Lindsay K. Campbell, Ph. D. and their work on the Living Memorials Project. He decided to expand his project to help tell the story of the many hundreds of memorials across the country that came before the WTC grove. On July 1, 2014 he visited Tribute Park with his crew and the social scientists to film and to interview the President of the Tribute Park board, Bernie Warnock.

In the days after the WTC attack on September 11, 2001, when it became clear that Rockaway was perhaps the hardest hit community in the city, a group of Rockaway activists sat down to plan a memorial for the locals who died in the attack.Everybody agreed that the perfect site was a triangle on the bay at Beach 116 Street, an empty lot belonging to the city's Parks Department, from which many Rockaway residents watched the Twin Towers burn and then fall.On November 6, 2005, after a lot of hard work, the park opened without its signature cupola which was added five months later.The Wave, September 2009

MISSION STATEMENT

The park was created to serve as a tribute, not a memorial, to those Rockaway residents who died in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The intention was to provide a place where community members can reflect on their lost loved ones and find comfort to move on with their lives.

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